Re: Filestreams (and 64bit inodes)

[Greg Banks <gnb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Greg Banks wrote:
>
>   
>>> (and the plan for statically linked apps? ...)
>>>       
>> Perhaps Fedora could enable the glibc magic for issuing warnings at link
>> time when those symbols are used, like what happens today if you use the
>> old unsafe gets() function:
>>
>> gnb@inara 1058> gcc -o fmeh x.c
>> /tmp/ccQhxIIo.o: In function `main':
>> x.c:(.text+0x18): warning: the `gets' function is dangerous and should not 
>> be used.
>>     
>
>
> It wouldn't help the automated builds (nobody'd see it)
Hmm.  I don't see a way in glibc to upgrade that warning to an error to
make those builds fail, at least in glibc 2.4.
>  but for normal
> user compilations that might be an option...
>
>   

Indeed.

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